Social enterprises ‘inspirers of sustainable living’ The role of social enterprises as inspirers of sustainable living is highlighted in a new report Getting the Message Across published by Defra’s Social Enterprise Strategic Partnership The report highlights the work done by social enterprises to bring sustainable living to life Download the report at http://sd.defra.gov.uk/advice/community/ . Report into Rural [...]

Produced In Norfolk the social enterprise that aims to protect rural skills from being lost is part of the Norfolk food Festival this month. Their Taste the View Weekend invites you to explore some of the Counties small food and drink producers with enticing offers and tasting sessions. All the details at www.producedinnorfolk.com

A short (2-min) animated video about liftshare  the on line lift sharing enterprise based in Attleborough has been released You can see it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hu8_icGZjo&feature=plcp

Social Capital Investment Portfolio In 2012 the Company Radical Capital will present the UK’s first Social Capital Investment Portfolio .  The Portfolio will represent a group of investment ready social enterprises.  This aims to enable better investment decisions while delivering an effective learning programme for social business and their commissioners.  Interested participants, influencers and investors [...]

The Dunwich Dynamo is an annual semi-organised, through-the-night bike ride from Hackney, London to Dunwich on the Suffolk Coast. Oscar and Simon will cycle the second half, from Sudbury to Dunwich on Sunday morning the 1st of July. Oscar will attach his bike to Simon’s via a tow bar when tiredness calls for it! The aim [...]

A Norfolk social enterprise has beaten entries from across Europe to win its second international award in as many months. Out of 262 projects for the Sustainable Energy Europe Awards 2012, submitted from 14 EU member states, Attleborough-based liftshare won the Travelling category for its “liftshare Week 2011” campaign. The winners were announced during the prestigious Sustainability [...]

EUROPEDUCATION, the first UK based Social Enterprise of its kind, which aims to create a brighter and less indebted future for tomorrow’s UK undergraduate university students was launched on  Tuesday 26 June in Norwich EUROPEDUCATION provides support for students and guardians to explore affordable undergraduate university courses taught in English across Europe. EUROPEDUCATION believes that studying [...]

Norfolk Social Enterprise Keystone Green ventures Bikes is launching monthly bike maintenance courses from Saturday 28th April.  The courses that last 4 hours aim to teach basic bike maintenance to help keep you and your bike on the road.  The courses that will run throughout the summer will be held on the last Saturday of [...]

Social Enterprise Norfolk joined over seventy budding social entrepreneurs in Norwich last month and were pleased to be one of several exhibitors offering one to one support. We  also ran four workshops on the  ABC of Business Planning. The hand out from these sessions can be downloaded at the end of this article In many rural [...]

This event is a rare opportunity for policy makers, business owners, academics and researchers to share the learning from much acclaimed Professor Monder Ram. OBE,.Director of CREME, Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Enterpreneurship. As diversity across our region is becoming more prominent, its impact on our changing economic environment is being noticed. The aims of [...]